Brown Medical School, Providence
Flow-mediated vasodilation predicts the presence and extent of coronary artery disease
Published in Medical Imaging Law Weekly, November 15th, 2005
"Endothelial function can be measured by FMD of the brachial artery and has been associated with cardiac risk factors (RF) and angiographically defined CAD. Stress single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging is commonly used to study patients with CAD.
W.C. Wu and colleagues, Brown Medical School, said "We sought to study the relationship between endothelial dysfunction by FMD and stress thallium SPECT to detect CAD.
"Fifty-five consecutive patients with...
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